Because everything good in this world has to be fought for incessantly, we’re doing this again. Today is the day to save the internet, or at least raise so much hell with Donald Trump's FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, that he cannot ignore us.
Open internet advocates, Silicon Valley giants, and tens of thousands of internet users launched a massive online protest on Wednesday to oppose the Trump administration's plan to dismantle federal rules safeguarding net neutrality, the internet's open access principle.
Organized by a coalition of leading public interest and consumer rights groups, Wednesday's "Day of Action" is designed to send a strong message of resistance to Trump's Federal Communications Commission chief, Republican Ajit Pai, who is leading the effort to roll back the legal basis for the agency's net neutrality protections. [...]
"Today's Day of Action marks the beginning of a massive pushback against the effort to remove essential net neutrality protections that benefit all internet users," Chris Lewis, vice president at DC-based digital rights group Public Knowledge, which helped organize Wednesday's protest, said in a statement.
"Everyone benefits from the current rules that maintain a free market and level playing field for all websites and services online," Lewis said. "The only people that benefit from eliminating the current net neutrality rules are the big cable and broadband companies who want to favor their own content over their competitors' content and reap billions of dollars in new profits."
As usual, we’re on the side of the vast majority of the American public—77 percent of it, in fact, that wants to see the open internet rule passed by the FCC preserved. That includes 73 percent of Republicans, 80 percent of Democrats, and 76 percent of independents. That’s because frustration with Comcast and slow internet speeds know no party boundaries.
Join in the battle to save the internet. Send your letter and tell the FCC and Congress that they need to be on the side of the people, not Comcast, AT&T, or Verizon.